Department of History (Historical Studies) units in 2026/27

Please note: Programme and unit information may change as the relevant academic field develops. We may also make changes to the structure of programmes and assessments to improve the student experience.

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Level QCA-3
Level C/4
Level I/5
Level H/6
Level M/7
Level D/8
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Unit name Unit code Credit points Open unit status Faculty of Arts Category Teaching Block
Aztecs, Incas and Evangelisers HIST30142 40 Not open TB-4
Capitalism HIST30115 20 Not open TB-1
Dark Pasts: Modern Histories of Night in Britain and North America HIST30145 40 Not open TB-4
Dissertation HIST33101 40 Not open E TB-4
Global Empires HIST30122 20 Not open D TB-2
Greed Is Good: Enterprise Culture in Contemporary Britain and America HIST30144 40 Not open TB-4
Health on the Colour Line: Race and Medicine in America HIST30149 40 Not open TB-4
Histories of the Polar Regions HIST30147 40 Not open TB-4
Horrible Histories And All That HIST30119 20 Not open D TB-2
Indians on the Move: From Indenture to Independence HIST30151 40 Not open TB-4
Kingship and Crisis during the Wars of the Roses HIST30153 40 Not open TB-4
Medicine, magic and sex in early modern England and its colonies HIST30141 40 Not open TB-4
Memory HIST30113 20 Not open C TB-1
Merchants, Mystics and the Marginalised: Societies in Motion in Early Modern South Asia HIST30154 40 Not open TB-4
Millennial Britain HIST30125 20 Not open D TB-2
Once Upon a Crime: Law and Popular Culture in the Age of Empires HIST30152 40 Not open TB-4
Practice-Based Dissertation (History) HIST30129 40 Not open B,E TB-4
Race HIST30117 20 Not open TB-1
Rage against the machine: technology and anti-technology in modern Britain HIST30150 40 Not open TB-4
Red Power: American Indian activism since 1944 HIST30146 40 Not open TB-4
Sexualities HIST30118 20 Not open C TB-1
Sustainability HIST30159 20 Not open TB-1
Teenage Kicks: Youth and subcultures in Britain since 1918 HIST30143 40 Not open TB-4
War, Plague, and Rebellion: England in the Fourteenth Century HIST30156 40 Not open TB-4